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REVIEWS Charles A. Ferguson and Dan I. Slobin (eds.), Studies of Child Language Development. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 645 pp. In her recent survey of European studies in child language T. Slama-Cazacu (1972) has expressed her opinion that the decade of the Seventies will probably bring new and original findings on native language acquisition resulting from the joint effort of various branches of linguistics, psychology and psycholinguistics. 1 One of the necessary conditions of such anticipated results is also a confrontation and synthesis of numerous data on acquisition of typologically different languages and of particular levels of language system. The book under review can be regarded as a serious contribution to such a confrontation. It is an extensive collection of articles (almost 650 pages) presenting studies on early child language acquisition originally published in various journals and books. As the editors mention in the Preface their intention was "to provide the reader with a compendium of the sorts of empirical evidence available today on the child's acquisition of language" (vii). Accordingly, papers primarily theoretical in content were not incorporated into the collection. The studies reprinted refer to about 12 languages from several language families (mainly English http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-3949
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1613-396X
DOI
10.1515/ling.1976.14.172.105
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Charles A. Ferguson and Dan I. Slobin (eds.), Studies of Child Language Development. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 645 pp. In her recent survey of European studies in child language T. Slama-Cazacu (1972) has expressed her opinion that the decade of the Seventies will probably bring new and original findings on native language acquisition resulting from the joint effort of various branches of linguistics, psychology and psycholinguistics. 1 One of the necessary conditions of such anticipated results is also a confrontation and synthesis of numerous data on acquisition of typologically different languages and of particular levels of language system. The book under review can be regarded as a serious contribution to such a confrontation. It is an extensive collection of articles (almost 650 pages) presenting studies on early child language acquisition originally published in various journals and books. As the editors mention in the Preface their intention was "to provide the reader with a compendium of the sorts of empirical evidence available today on the child's acquisition of language" (vii). Accordingly, papers primarily theoretical in content were not incorporated into the collection. The studies reprinted refer to about 12 languages from several language families (mainly English

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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